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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:51:43 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: howto recognize the Shift and Alt keys when /pressed\
Message-ID:  <20131026155143.12b15afb.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20131023230226.GA2828@ethic.thought.org>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:02:26 +0000, Gary Kline wrote:
> Organization: Thought Unlimited.  Public service Unix since 1986.
> Of_Interest: With 27 years  of service  to the  Unix  community.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 02:44:29AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:42:33 +0000, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:11:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:38:05 +0000, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > No need to re-invent the wheel here. Just "attach to" the
> > > > responsible components of the OS mentioned above. In C. :-)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	I wonder if I could take the src of xev.c and then, 
> > > 	seeing what it does when I click on CTRL, ATL, CAPS LOCK,
> > > 	anf SHIFT.  MAke any sense?
> > 
> > Yes, makes _perfectly_ sense as long as you're running X.
> > The X event viewer is a very good example on how to find
> > out the key codes. You simply need to get that "in between"
> > in the input chain so the keys keep working (instead of
> > "making them disappear" by reading them _from_ the input
> > buffer). I'd imagine that this is possible.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 	I havent searched that far, but cant find xev.c; can you dig it out
> 	of the src and send it my way?

It's in the ports collection. Simply do the following:

	# cd /usr/ports/x11/xev/
	# make fetch
	# make extract
	# make patch
	# cd work/xev-1.1.0

and you'll find xev.c and all other files belonging to that
program. Note that my installation here is quite old (8-STABLE
as of summer 2011) so there might be a newer version of xev
in the ports collection already. :-)




-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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